That meant cramming more than 60 musicians in to the east end of the not exactly commodious St George’s Hanover Square, and some curious balances for many of us in the packed church. I got an earful ...

HANDEL'S Esther was his first attempt at oratorio in English - its first short version of (probably) 1718 being revised for what was still an experimental art-form in 1732. But it succeeded and kept ...

The King’s Counterpoint performs the third concert in its Handelian Oratorio Series, this time presenting "Esther" at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at Synagogue Emanu-El, 5 Windsor Drive, West Ashley.

Esther is well known to have been the first of Handel's English oratorios, but exactly when it was first heard, and in what form, remains uncertain. The first version, which probably dates from 1718 ...

Esther, Handel's first oratorio in English, has a powerful subject. Haman, the villain of the piece, proposes a holocaust with the words: "It is decreed, All the Jewish race shall bleed." His plan is ...

Esther. Music by G.F. Handel. Conducted by Brett Weymark, directed by Tobias Cole. Handel in the Theatre. Free public rehearsals in the foyer of the National Portrait Gallery, September 10 and October ...